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You Can’t Do ‘Real DeFi’ Unless It’s Asset Oriented

Andrew MacGill
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You Can’t Do ‘Real DeFi’ Unless It’s Asset Oriented

Decentralized finance has come to be one of the most compelling use cases for blockchain technology over the last couple of years. Its ability to manage financial assets and provide services without the need for centralized banks to authorize transactions and verify customers has created the foundations of a more accessible and inclusive financial ecosystem that benefits everyone.

The stunning growth of the DeFi industry, which was valued at more than $77 billion in March 2022, underscores this potential. Even so, compared to the world of traditional finance, DeFi accounts for only a tiny percentage of the world’s financial transactions. What this means is that there is enormous room for growth, but that won’t happen until DeFi is built upon much stronger foundations.

One of the great weaknesses of existing DeFi is that it’s built atop of a very shaky and inefficient architecture – namely smart contracts.

It is of course smart contracts that make DeFi possible. They’re the underlying code that enable decentralized applications to automate transactions when certain conditions are met, without the need for a middleman. They’re similar in theory to traditional contracts, however, they’re more intelligent because they don’t require enforcement. Rather, smart contracts are programmed to execute transactions only when certain, transparent conditions are met. In this way, they can perform transactions instantaneously, far faster than traditional financial systems can, as there’s no need for a human to ensure that all the requirements have been met. Because the intermediary is eliminated, the transaction fees are also much lower.

Although they are indeed much smarter, smart contracts are not infallible. One of the biggest challenges is safety. Because smart contracts are really just code, there’s the ever-present danger of bugs or vulnerabilities slipping through the net. This is not an insignificant risk – billions of dollars in value has been lost to attacks on DeFi protocols since the industry first emerged.

Part of the problem is the learning curve involved for smart contract developers. Smart contracts are made up of incredibly complex, spaghetti code, and yet it’s necessary to create dozens of them to define the functionality of most DeFi applications. Developers generally need several years of hands-on experience with the Solidity programming language that’s used to create smart contracts on Ethereum and compatible networks, before they can even contemplate creating a functional and secure decentralized application.

This staggering complexity is primarily due to the complete lack of support for digital assets, such as cryptocurrency tokens and NFTs, at the platform level. Though DeFi revolves almost exclusively around assets such as BTC, ETH, USDC, and so on, major blockchain networks like Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, Cosmos, Fantom, and Binance Chain do not have any native concept of these assets.

To help developers build safe, secure, and functional dApps more quickly, it’s, therefore, necessary to redesign the very foundation of DeFi platforms, by reinventing the way smart contracts are built and implemented. Instead of being an afterthought, digital assets have to become a part of the fabric of DeFi, so developers can create and control them with ease, without writing masses of unwieldy code.

Why Native Assets Matter

 To understand the importance of asset-oriented DeFi, it helps to look at the problems that are caused by Ethereum’s lack of native assets. With Ethereum, developers deploy smart contracts onto the network in their own little space, where they’re able to store data that’s updated constantly as they process transactions. In this architectural model, every single function in DeFi has to be implemented as a smart contract. There’s no other way. So a token such as ETH is represented as a smart contract that tracks wallet balances, while a multi-sig account is another smart contract that must be signed by multiple public keys in order to perform an action. Token swaps, loans, liquidity pools – you name it – they’re all implemented as smart contracts.

With DeFi, these smart contracts all communicate with each via a complex messaging network to perform even the most simple functions. For instance, a smart contract that holds some tokens needs to communicate with a second contract that implements that token separately, via a list of balances and methods to adjust those balances. To enable this, the Ethereum Virtual Machine application environment makes it possible for smart contracts to send messages to one another. In this way, smart contracts are composable, meaning developers can connect them together in such a way that they can perform complicated transactions in a coordinated way.

This is the basis for modern DeFi, but it’s terribly inefficient, with every single function implemented within a smart contract silo. It results in millions of messages constantly flowing back and forth across the network with complex logic required to perform the right action in response to each one, and a stream of ever-changing data held within each smart contract that keeps a record of all of the transactions they perform.

The existence of DeFi applications like Uniswap and Curve shows us that this architecture works, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it works well. On the contrary, numerous DeFi hacks show us that it’s a terribly inefficient model that creates truly perilous risks for its users.

What is obvious however is that these interactions between digital assets are the basis of every single DeFi transaction. So it stands to reason that an asset-oriented DeFi architecture would be far more efficient.

The Advantage Native Assets

This is the basic theory behind Radix, an innovative smart contact platform built specifically for DeFi that treats assets as a key feature of its platform, rather than implementing them in siloes at the smart contract level.

Radix transactions are executed within the Radix Engine application environment. The key difference is that Radix Engine creates assets, such as tokens, by directly requesting them from the platform along with their specific parameters.

In other words, Radix-based tokens such as XRD aren’t formed as entities on thousands of separate balance lists, but instead treated as physical objects stored in “vaults”, or accounts, and moved between them when transactions are processed. These vaults are controlled directly by their users, as opposed to EVM where an individual’s tokens might be spread among multiple smart contracts that hold the entries for their public keys.

The physicality of this behavior is based on a finite state machine (FSM) model that securely tracks tokens as they move between user’s vaults, similar to how a delivery service keeps track of customer’s orders. It’s a simplified transaction model, wherein the user essentially tells the platform that they wish to send the tokens that they hold to a designated vault. Users must send a message from one smart contract to another and trust that it will update its balance entities. In this way, errors such as double-accounting can be avoided, as they simply aren’t possible within this architecture.

In a nutshell, this is the basis of Radix’s asset-oriented DeFi architecture. It creates a far more intuitive, easier-to-use model for token transactions that eliminates a ton of complexity, making DeFi inherently more secure than the traditional model.

The model is so radically different to traditional DeFi that Radix has reinvented smart contracts as “components”. Because they’re modular and composable and have clear functions, Radix’s components can be thought of as “lego bricks” that developers can use to piece together their DeFi apps in a simple, step-by-step fashion, even if they don’t have any experience with the Scrypto programming language.

Conclusion

Radix’s asset-oriented approach to DeFi allows developers to use integrated resources to handle the vast majority of their smart contract functionality. As such, Radix-based DeFi is not only easier and safer, but also far more composable and reusable than traditional DeFi. Instead of writing specialized code to define every single little thing their dApp does, developers can simply build their dApps from its library of resources.

330B Tokens Needed To Hijack Terra Classic, Critic Says Community Forcibly Urging Exchanges To Apply Trading Burns

Albert Brown
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330B Tokens Needed To Hijack Terra Classic, Critic Says Community Forcibly Urging Exchanges To Apply Trading Burns

 

Prominent Terra Whistleblower Calls Out LUNAtics for Soliciting for LUNC Tax Burn Compliance from Exchanges.



Renowned Terra whistleblower FatMan comes for Terra proponents for calling for exchange compliance of the LUNC 1.2% tax burn.

Terra proponents have recently revitalized their campaign for Terra Classic (LUNC), as the asset shows signs of a comeback. The Terra community recently revisited a long-forgotten burn proposal for LUNC that could assist in cutting down the asset’s circulating supply which surged during the Terra crash. 

LUNAtics have been demanding that exchanges implement the tax burn, but FatMan is not having it. FatMan took to Twitter to express his displeasure, dubbing the recently proposed tax burn mechanism “suicidal.” 

“LUNC has voted in the suicidal on-chain burn tax, which is their prerogative. But they’re now running around demanding that exchanges forcibly steal a cut out of traders’ transactions and throw it into the burn wallet to pump their token price,” FatMan said in the tweet.

 

According to FatMan, the campaign from LUNAtics is a “selfish, silly and anti-blockchain” demand. Speaking further, FatMan highlighted a seemingly growing concern with LUNC, citing a Terra analyst.

He further said that only 500B LUNC are staked, requiring only 330B tokens to seize the terra chain.

“Only 0.5 trillion LUNC currently staked, so you just need 0.33 trillion to completely hijack the chain. The circulating supply of LUNC is 6.5 trillion. LUNC is like a giant bank vault, where multiple unknown people have a key,” FatMan quoted. 

FatMan’s commentary came in response to recent criticisms of Kraken and Binance from a community-driven Terra Twitter handle. The handle dubbed Kraken and Binance “scumbags” due to their reluctance to support the tax burn on LUNC trading.

It bears mentioning that these exchanges have already declared support for on-chain burns. Binance, in particular, highlighted that they would start with on-chain burns before considering implementing LUNC trading burns.

The Crypto Basic reported that about nine exchanges had indicated support for the LUNC 1.2% tax burn, with Kraken being the latest. Amongst the nine exchanges, only three have indicated readiness to implement the tax burn on LUNC trading. It appears the majority of LUNAtics are not pleased with this.

Terra proponents recently launched a campaign to resurrect Terra Classic, as the asset previously staged a massive comeback. The community is looking to make the asset whole through the 1.2% tax burn and the staking mechanism. Both measures are aimed at curtailing the asset’s supply which currently sits at 6.1 trillion tokens.

The recent rally from LUNC has faced a massive rejection as it comes to a halt. Despite this opposition, the asset is still trading above its previous value in the past month. LUNC is currently changing hands at $0.00027 at the time of reporting, down 39% in the past week.

LUNC still remains on the top 35 list of largest digital assets. With a current market capitalization of $1.64B, LUNC is the 33rd largest mainstream crypto asset by valuation. LUNC staking is gaining ground, with 565.5B staked as of press time, representing 8.1% of the total supply. This data is provided by a LUNC staking bot on Twitter.

Grayscale Announces Selling Of Above 3 Million ETHPoW Tokens Acquired By Its Trusts

Lele Jima
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Grayscale Announces Selling Of Above 3 Million ETHPoW Tokens Acquired By Its Trusts

Grayscale Announces Date for the Distribution of EthereumPoW (ETHW) Proceeds to Its Clients.


The company will distribute the net sales of ETHW to shareholders of ETHE and GDLC.

Leading digital currency asset manager, Grayscale, has announced that two of its funds have passively received the rights to forked EthereumPoW (ETHW) tokens.

According to an announcement today, Grayscale currently has rights to ETHW because the company has two Ethereum-related funds, Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC), which give investors indirect exposure to ETH. 

For ETHE, Grayscale has the right to approximately 3,059,976.06309448 ETHPoW tokens, representing 0.00986585 ETHPoW tokens per share of the total 310,158,500 shares the Trust currently has. 

Similarly, Grayscale also has passive rights to a total of 40,653.24325763 ETHPoW tokens for GDLC, representing 0.00256206 ETHPoW tokens per share based on 15,867,400 shares. 

Grayscale will be appointed as agents of the funds and will receive the forked Ethereum tokens on behalf of its clients. 

“The Agent may determine, in its sole discretion, whether, when, and in what manner to sell the ETHPoW tokens it holds on behalf of the Record Date Shareholders of the applicable Product. In addition, the Agent may choose to abandon the ETHPoW tokens held by it on behalf of the applicable Product… and sell them over a period of time, which is currently not expected to exceed 180 days,” Grayscale said in a statement. 

Grayscale added that it would decide what platform to sell the tokens and distribute the net cash proceeds to holders of ETHE and GDLC products on September 26, 2022. The company added that it might use any of its affiliated dealers, including Genesis Global, to facilitate trading the ETHW tokens. 

The leading digital currency asset manager expects the value of ETHW to fluctuate massively since there is no tendency that trading markets with meaningful liquidity for the newly forked Ethereum tokens will be established. 

“As a result of this uncertainty and the potential for significant volatility in prices it is not possible to predict the value of rights to ETHPoW tokens if any, that the Agent will be able to realize from sales of ETHPoW tokens after the Record Date,” Grayscale added. 

EthereumPoW Launches After Merge Upgrade

Yesterday, the Ethereum Proof-of-Work network officially made its debut after the launch of Ethereum Merge. The forked Ethereum chain has already made some progress. As reported, OKLink launched an explorer for ETHW and the cryptocurrency is already listed on popular exchanges, including FTX. 

Terra Classic 1.2% Burn Proposal Passed With 99% Votes; Terra Rebels Says Now It’s Up To Them To Make It Work

Mark Brennan
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Terra Classic 1.2% Burn Proposal Passed With 99% Votes; Terra Rebels Says Now It’s Up To Them To Make It Work

 

LUNA Classic (LUNC) 1.2% Tax Proposal Passes Governance Vote.



The LUNC, 1.2% tax burn proposal, dubbed proposal #4661, has passed the governance vote, as confirmed in a tweet by proposal author Edward Kim, notably, Kim says that the parameter change has been made and will take effect from block 9,475,200.

“Terra Classic governance has passed prop 4661. The treasury parameter rates have already been updated. Once the new epoch starts (block 9,475,200), the effective tax rate will automatically be changed to 1.2%,” Kim tweeted.

Terra Rebels says that out of 96% cast votes, 99% favored the 1.2% tax burns, and now it’s up to them to make it work.

It bears mentioning that the proposal was made open for voting just over a week ago, seven days after it was published. Once implemented, the proposal, which has created a lot of excitement in the LUNC classic community, will see LUNC users charged a 1.2% fee for all on-chain transactions. Notably, the fee is sent to the Terra burn wallet to reduce excess LUNC supply.

As shown in the dashboard shared by reXx, a member of the Terra Rebels group, which currently handles Terra Classic development, at the end of the vote, 99.88% voted in favor of the proposal.

 

LUNC has had an impressive run of late, surging by over 300%. However, the price action has slowed recently, giving away some of its gains. It is trading at the $0.0002815 price point, down 46.43% in the last seven days.

1.65M Bitcoin Sent to Exchanges in Few Days, Signaling High Selling Pressure

Mark Brennan
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1.65M Bitcoin Sent to Exchanges in Few Days, Signaling High Selling Pressure

 

Investors moved 1.65 million Bitcoin to several exchanges from September 7 to 13, marking the highest ever 7-day exchange inflow in 11 months.



Bitcoin has met several oppositions from the bears, like the rest of the crypto market. The asset has been extensively underperforming since the outset of the bear market, with capitulation emerging at specific points of the cycle. Recent data suggests the market might start seeing a wave of selloffs.

Crypto market intelligence provider Santiment released the mind-blowing metric through its official Twitter handle Friday. Per data from the Santiment chart, market players sent up to 1.65M BTC – worth over $33.5B against prevailing rates –  to exchanges from September 7 to 13. 

 

The last time such an enormous amount of BTC was sent out within a week was October 2021. “This was the highest amount of $BTC moved since October 2021,” Santiment noted in the tweet. 

Usually, investors move assets to exchanges when there is an intent to sell them off. Consequently, market watchers consider this move a contribution to the bearishness in the space. Notwithstanding, some investors send their assets to exchanges when they wish to set up large positions.

Besides the Santiment chart, the BTC Exchange Netflow metric from CryptoQuant shows some bearish indications. With the last value of -457, the Exchange Netflow indicates a higher selling pressure on investors. This comes from a high net deposit on exchanges. 

Market conditions do not bode well for the digital gold as it has recently been knocked off the support at $20k. Following BTC’s rejection at the $22,673 peak on Tuesday, the asset had held up quite well above the $20k support. However, on Thursday, the bears knocked the asset off the support.

Bitcoin now trades at $19,716 at the time of reporting, down 1.66% in the past 24 hours. The coming days are significant to Bitcoin’s price movement, with the recent surge in exchange deposits.

John Richmond Says “Loads Of Big News” Coming Shiba Inu Way

Zabi
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John Richmond Says “Loads Of Big News” Coming Shiba Inu Way

 

Shiba Inu Community Gets Curious as John Richmond is Building a Buzz for Upcoming Milan Fashion Week 2022.



Sir John Richmond, an official in-real-life (IRL) business partner of Shiba Inu (SHIB), is ready to build a buzz with his new collection and loads of big news as Milan Fashion Week is just about to start.

John Richmond, a famous English designer based in Italy, recently posted a tweet and announced that he is ready to display his new collection in the upcoming Milan Fashion Week starting from September 20th, 2022.

In addition, Shiba Inu’s official IRL business partner created curiosity among Shiba Inu Community by saying he would come up with “loads of big news” at the event and asked the Community a question: “What do you expect from this fashion week?”

While specifying his target Community, he also added the hashtags “#legendsliveforever, #SHIB, #ShibaJohnRichmond” in his tweet.

Shiba Inu Ecosystem and John Richmond entered into a strategic partnership to change the course of the fashion industry on February 28, 2022. The partnership enabled John Richmond to create 10,000 John Richmond SHIB NFTs in exchange for the showcase of the special SHIB x John Richmond collection in the upcoming Fashion Shows organized in Milan, Italy –especially during Milan Fashion Weeks. The collection will later be available in every John Richmond store worldwide.

Here’s What Can Be Expected From Upcoming Milan Fashion Week (20-26 September 2022):

To some extent, the former reports and announcements related to SHIB x John Richmond can help us answer John Richmond’s recently asked question: “What do you expect from this fashion week?”

Public Disclosure of John Richmond’s Store in SHIB: The Metaverse:

John Richmond might publicly disclose virtual land buying for its store in SHIB: The Metaverse.

On April 19th, John Richmond expressed his desire to buy a virtual land for its store in SHIB: The Metaverse via tweet. Following the tweet, John Richmond remained tight-lipped and hasn’t shared any news regarding the acquisition. Therefore, at the event, we can expect John Richmond to make public the acquisition of virtual land for its store in SHIB: The Metaverse and share more details about it.

Exclusive “SHIB x John Richmond” Clothing Line’s Presentation:

John Richmond might unveil the first-ever exclusive SHIB x John Richmond clothing line.

Later on April 30th, the Shiba Inu team was reported to commence negotiations with top supermodels to wear different John Richmond brands featuring SHIB designs. However, the team didn’t disclose the names of these supermodels but provided the Shiba Inu Community with a hint that all these supermodels have a large fanbase globally.

One month later, on June 5th, a few images of exclusive #SHIB “tags” became public via the official SHIB Growth Breed member, MILKSHAKE, suggesting that John Richmond is close to unveiling the first-ever SHIB x John Richmond clothing line.

Following this, at the end of the month of August, a 62-year-old English Fashion Designer finally showcased an illustration of his iconic partnership with the Shiba Inu Ecosystem.

Considering all the above pin-points provided by Shiba Inu’s team and John Richmond via announcements, we can conclude that the new collection that John Richmond will present at the upcoming Milan Fashion Week is related to “SHIB x John Richmond.”

However, we can just assume all the possible announcements at the moment. Only time will tell what is actually there in John Richmond’s mystery box for the Shiba Inu Community.

Shiba Inu Lead Developer Says “We Focus Only On Building, Never On Hype”

Lele Jima
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Shiba Inu Lead Developer Says “We Focus Only On Building, Never On Hype”

The lead developer expressed confidence in the future of Shiba Inu.



The pseudonymous lead developer of Shiba Inu (SHIB), Shytoshi Kusama is confident that the crypto project will not lose its hype but says the team is never focused on hype. 

For Kusama, Shiba Inu will continue to remain relevant because the team behind the cryptocurrency has never been focused on attracting unnecessary hype. 

According to Kusama, the team has focused on creating useful products and platforms to help Shiba Inu grow organically. In recent times, Shiba Inu has been working on collaborating with top companies that have relevant experiences in different aspects of SHIB. 

Kusama made this known on Shiba Inu’s official Discord channel, saying: 

“I do not think we’ll lose ‘hype.’ We were never focused on hype; we were focused on platforms and products. And now also partnerships.”  

shib developer on discord

Source: Twitter

Shiba Inu’s Significant Growth Since Inception

Interestingly, Shiba Inu has come a long way since it went live in August 2020. Despite initially launching as a meme-based cryptocurrency, Shiba Inu has been releasing new products and services that are helping it to shred the meme coin title. 

Shiba Inu’s popularity spiked massively last year, with many referring to the cryptocurrency as the official Dogecoin killer. At first, many people thought the team’s focus was to create unusual hype via social media campaigns to drive mainstream adoption. But now, people are adopting Shiba Inu based on the projects the team has released and others that are currently being worked on.

At the moment, Shiba Inu has launched its own non-fungible token (NFT) dubbed Shiboshi, metaverse, and decentralized exchange named ShibaSwap. The team is currently working on releasing a Play-to-Earn (P2E) game and a Layer-2 blockchain. 

Shiba Inu partnered with top companies for all these projects to ensure they launch successfully. Some of the companies the SHIB team has partnered with include The Third Floor, Unification, etc. 

 

Dogecoin Founder Slams Debate Around DOGE Tip Jar, Says He Wasn’t Rewarded for Creating Project

Mark Brennan
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Dogecoin Founder Slams Debate Around DOGE Tip Jar, Says He Wasn’t Rewarded for Creating Project

Marcus has slammed persistent arguments over Dogecoin Tip Jar allocation.



Billy Marcus, the co-founder of Dogecoin, has blasted some enthusiasts of the project, who have continued to argue about the allocation of the DOGE Tip Jar. 

His comments come after a member of the Dogecoin community slammed non-developers for always talking about the Tip Jar and believing that it is their right to have an opinion on the matter. 

“Good morning rise n shine n build, except to the folks who keep talking about the tip jar who assume it’s their business and have contributed 0 code to dogecoin core yet feel entitled to dictate what happens with it,” the user said in a tweet. 

Marcus’ Reaction

The tweet resulted in a lengthy thread that drew the attention of Marcus, who also gave his opinion. Marcus said since the Tip Jar is causing serious arguments, he believes the best way to solve the issue is to give the “dissenter” his share. 

“[…] but [the dissenter] doesn’t want that because it would prevent him from moral grandstanding,” Marcus added. 

According to Marcus, the issue should not persist further, and the Dogecoin community should not be a part of the debate. He added that he was not rewarded for creating the Dogecoin Tip Jar and contributed immensely to the first five updates of the project. 

“the community shouldn’t be a part of this bullsh.t debate…”

“I didn’t get sh.t for creating the thing and doing the first 5 releases, so f**k the tip jar and f**k everyone arguing this shit still,” Marcus added. 

 

Discussions About Dogecoin Tip Jar

The Tip Jar has been a major topic of discussion in the Dogecoin community. The violation of the payout policy of the Tip Jar prompted DOGE community members to send tips directly to Core developer Patrick Lodder. 

Lodder, in a GitHub post, said the tips he receives whenever there is a new release do not belong to him alone. He stated that he has saved the tips and vaulted them to a time-locked p2sh address, which will be shared among other core developers. 

Senator Toomey Bashes SEC Chairman For Considering Most Cryptos Security

Mark Brennan
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Senator Toomey Bashes SEC Chairman For Considering Most Cryptos Security

Sen.Toomey Pushes Back on Sec’s Chairman’s Statement.


According to Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, nearly all crypto tokens fit the definition of traditional security and should be registered and regulated as such. He made his case to skeptical members of the Senate Banking Committee, who pushed him for more information on his opinion that while Bitcoin functions similarly to a commodity, most tokens are comparable to standard stocks.

Pat Toomey (Penn.), the top Republican on the panel, argued that crypto tokens have differentiating factors that should be considered when developing a regulatory framework. Namely, tokens have varying degrees of decentralization, they do not have a financial claim on the issuer, and they can typically be settled in real-time without intermediaries.

Gensler said that the Supreme Court has already ruled on what defines security and that there is a well-known test with many factors used to determine if most tokens are securities.

“There are many factors,” he said, responding to Toomey’s questioning. “It’s not one spectrum of decentralization versus decentralization.”

Gensler insisted that many tokens share the format of a start-up business, with a few entrepreneurs promoting investment in their project to a larger group of investors who buy a stake in the enterprise in hopes of making a profit.

According to this logic, the technology and logistics of crypto kept on a distributed ledger are irrelevant to the question of how it should be governed.

“What I think about are the people in the middle,” Gensler said. “The developer is stuck in the middle, and investors are gambling on them–even if the token might be found on a thousand computers.” He continued, saying that this isn’t what Supreme Court justices care about. “It’s not whether or not the token is on a thousand computers. They’re looking at something else entirely.”

This explanation was unsatisfactory for Toomey and other crypto critics in the Senate.

“It is not practical to fail to define precisely where on this scale you have a big enough shared enterprise that it classifies as a security and where you don’t,” he said. “You’ve said Bitcoin doesn’t. Your colleagues say Ethereum doesn’t, but a diligent developer who wants to obey this don’t know where that line is drawn.”

Some analysts believe Gensler also revealed his stance on Ethereum and puts ETH in security.

Fox Journalist Terret writes: “Did Gary Gensler indirectly reveal his stance on Ethereum at today’s BankingGOP hearing? “A common enterprise, a group of individuals in the middle…that developer is in the middle and the investing public is betting on them, counting on them even if the token might be on a thousand computers. It’s the group of developers in the middle.”

Ethereum’s merge was pulled off by a group of core developers that (arguably) the public was counting on to execute and get right. Does that make it a common enterprise, thus security in Gensler’s eyes?”

This explanation was unsatisfactory for Toomey and other crypto critics in the Senate.

Ripple General Counsel also questioned the SEC Chairman’s Interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Security Test.

Charles Hoskinson Trolls Ethereum Says Stakers On Cardano ‘Are Everyday People Who Don’t Need To Be Wealthy’

Mark Brennan
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Charles Hoskinson Trolls Ethereum Says Stakers On Cardano ‘Are Everyday People Who Don’t Need To Be Wealthy’

Hoskinson continues to poke holes at Ethereum’s proof-of-stake implementation.


In a tweet on Thursday, the founder of Cardano’s development team, Input Output Global (IOG), Charles Hoskinson, noted that Cardano, unlike Ethereum, did not restrict participation in network staking and validation to the wealthy in response to a shared Discord message by an Ethereum developer stating that “stakers are, by definition wealthy,” in an attempt to explain why staked Ethereum is locked till a to be disclosed time after the Shanghai upgrade.

“Stakers on Cardano are everyday people who don’t need to be wealthy. I guess that’s the philosophical difference,” Hoskinson tweeted.

 

It bears mentioning that the leaked message feeds into centralization concerns around The Merge as it explicitly states that only the wealthy, which usually make up the minority, can be network validators. To participate in network validation, you must stake a minimum of 32 ETH, over $47k, at today’s rates. The Crypto Basic reported yesterday that only two addresses processed over 46% of the network’s transactions following The Merge.

Meanwhile, censorship concerns remain as there is a concentration of staked ETH on centralized platforms, which are susceptible to government policy changes. These concerns have increased following US Treasury sanctions on Tornado Cash, forcing some US-based validators to ignore Tornado Cash transactions.

Notably, unlike Ethereum, Cardano uses a liquid staking system that does not lock user funds. Instead, users participate in network validation by delegating funds to stake pools that provide the necessary hardware while accessing their tokens at any time and still earning rewards on them with no minimum staking limit.

Despite current concerns, it is worth noting that The Ethereum Merge has delivered its promise to cut down on the network’s energy consumption. However, the asset price has not surged as some would have hoped but continues to decline, currently trading below the $1,500 price point.

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